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...WHITMAN-Newton Arvin-Macmillan...
...American poet evokes as much critical excitement as Whitman. The violence of the attacks on him, no less than the unmeasured enthusiasm of his defenders, is proof of how fruitful discussion of him remains 83 years after the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Last week two new books devoted to him made it clear that the poet of democracy, with all his mysteries, ambiguities, repetitions, vagueness and contradictions, is the biggest literary fig ure the U. S. has produced...
...Start of the Road is a novelized version of Whitman's stay in New Orleans in 1848. John Erskine pictures Whit man falling in love with an intelligent, Paris-educated quadroon, who bears his son. Inconsequential and not very convincing, the book gives an easy, informal portrait of Whitman, sketches of other historic figures, but is enriched with fine savory quotations from Whitman's poems which bring it to life when its story grows labored...
Newton Arvin's biography of Whitman, however, belongs with the best of the books about his poetry. The first clear exposition of his political beliefs, it establishes his relevancy to the present so convincingly that few readers are likely to question it. Brief and compact, with subtle critical formulations worked unobtrusively into its smooth and scholarly prose, it places Whitman's poems in relation to the life of his time-not only to radicalism, the Abolitionists, the Utopian socialists, the Jacksonian Democrats, the youthful robber barons, the trade unions, but to the educators and scientists whose work Whitman...
...Whitman to Akerson passing combination held a successful battery practice at Dunster's expense, resulting in two touchdowns in the Coasters' 13-0 win. Jack Lucey, Adams captain, kicked the extra point. Shorman Maisel, husky Adams guard, set up the second touchdown when he broke through and intercepted a Funster pass. Johnny Eaton played a bang-up game at tackle...